question about Task Manager's Priority settings

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ryan Meier
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Ryan Meier

I run a certain program in the background nearly 100% of the time. But this program interferes with
certain processor intensive games that I play. I can manually set the background program to Low
priority, and the games play normally. This wasy I don't have to exit the background app while in
the game. Is there any way to set priority to Low automatically when starting up the background
program?

I'm using XP Pro.
 
Hi Ryan,

assuming you have access to the shortcut that runs the program then
this can easily be achieved by using the "start" command and specifying
the priority.

Start is a command line utility, so you need to fire it via CMD.EXE

For example, if the shortcut is running "WOMBLE.EXE" then modify the
shortcut to run "cmd /c start /low WOMBLE.EXE"

Cheers,
Scott
 
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